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Writers exploring the darker edges of the world Roddenberry imagined is something that happened during Roddenberry's life. I may have mentioned this before, but Roddenberry reportedly hated the plot of Star Trek 6. Honestly I believe Trek is richer for it, because his ideas were a bit overbearing. Plausible only perhaps in a world where individualism has been completely purged, and that makes for a pretty boring setting for, ultimately, character-driven stories. What I'm not so sure is that going full grimdark because that's what (marketing studies suggest?) appeals to modern sensibilities, decades of world-building be damned, makes for a better product. Hell, I'd even be down for a mirror universe show, if they could write it well, because at the end of the day, it would be the mirror universe. But why bother with writing when you can pow and boom and ooh and ahh, and INSTANT SLAM DUNK ELEVENTY BILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE. Mass marketing is a blight.

Merged your thread into this one, where the topic is already being discussed. On topic: from what I know, modding MS Store games isn't possible, currently. There were plans to add mod support as of last summer, but I don't know what's the status on that currently.

It's really great. None of the posts shown are even written by the guy. The flagging was done by an algorithm that some IT firm got paid to develop. Good money was in all likelihood paid for the "report", which will inevitably end up in a dumpster, after some HR schmuck wonders what he's doing with his life while going through all 351 pages of it. This must be what they mean by "service economy". My phone doesn't have internet connection of its own and it's been years since I closed the last of my social media accounts, but I'm pretty sure no one in their right mind would hire me if they went through my posting history here. I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not.

As some random angry youtuber put it: it's Trek for people who don't like Trek, by people who don't know Trek.

Oh well.

Have you tried making changes to the files? I don't use it myself, but I've read that's where the MS Store DRM starts causing problems.

False dichotomy. edit: and, by the way, the study referenced in the (terrible) beeb piece includes the US. In fact, the US leads of the loss of confidence in democracy among the Anglo-Saxon democracies.

You'd have to "accident" half the video games industry, in that case. The 40K license seems to be granted really easily, judging by the amount of games made with it. Which is a good thing in my eyes, because it allows small-ish studios to have a go at it and sometimes you strike gold. I wonder what's Microsoft's stance on working with outside IPs. (I, being a bona fide progressive, am more of a Tzeentch guy)

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Accusing people of being alts is a bit of a running joke here. I wouldn't worry overmuch. Appeals to emotion are easier and quicker than writing 10,000-word essays on complex topics. And since no one's checking at the ballot box...

Hm. Thanks for the heads up, I might pick up the new Ghost Recon, I had a ton of fun playing dress-up going through the last one with a friend. Anyone knows if it's any good?

I haven't watched Rise, so I can't comment on that. But after the pilot, I am firmly convinced that this has all the markings of something I will hate. Melodrama, nonsensical plot devices, pacing that is all over the place, and most importantly a focus on wowing and shocking and moving the audience for the hell of it. Style over substance with a side dish of weaksauce political commentary. Exactly what put me off about DIS. While the Federation not being the reflection of a mankind that has realized its potential in the way Roddenberry imagined isn't exactly a new idea, I would expect the commentary to continue and expand, considering it's apparently what Sir Patrick Stewart feels is needed in currentyear because orange man bad and he's kind of the linchpin in the whole project. Regarding ENT, I think "Archer's Theme" would have been a better fit for the opening credits of a ST show, but I also liked Faith of the Heart.

London police to deploy facial recognition cameras across the city Doubtless a no small number of forward-thinking mayors across Europe will take good note.

The comparison is apt -- the seemingly inexorable authoritarian drift, the fiscal irresponsibility, the dilution of civic virtue especially among the political elites, the migration flows troubles. Of course, no US President has displayed Caligula levels of crazy, and the caravans of migrants coming in from Latin America are nothing compared to the Goths being pushed en masse into Roman territories by the Huns. The US is also still a civil war or ten behind. Nevertheless, the parallels are there, and even if the Founding Fathers didn't mean to build precisely a Third Rome, their work was obviously influenced by their classical educations. The British Empire on the other hand had centuries of distinct medieval and modern history behind it and it was basically broken by the cost of victory in WWII. Would it still be a superpower today if Hitler had been accepted into art school? @Guard Dog I think your fears of the US dollar falling from its place as the global reserve currency are mostly unfounded, debt or no, simply because there is no good alternative. I would expect the US to go to *any* lengths to keep it that way, including the use of its space forces.

Yeah! It has a lot of words. The best words. It has slow sequences, where many words are exchanged. Do those words make any sense? Who cares, here, have some fan service and POW! BANG! BIFF! not Mary Sue here has some moves straight out of the Matrix. It wouldn't be a Kurtzman show without a needless plot twist but before you can think too long on that watch the introduction of this really foreboding plot device that promises to outdo the signals from the future from DIS in the scope of its stupidity. By the way, did you know Picard likes Earl Grey tea? Like, he really ****ing digs that ****. In fact, I believe his diet is now comprised of 1,000% Earl Grey, hot. I guess "Star Trek" is just not for me anymore. Not judging anyone who enjoys this, of course. Don't want to ruin it for everyone else so just chalk this comment up to the Russian troll farm or whatever.

I'm not sure we'll see anything more definite/believable than this, or other similar statements. Epic isn't publicly traded so they are under no obligation to release that sort of financial data.

At least give them some credit for staying awake, man.

It goes without saying that the point of posting the question is getting tips from people one trusts not to be trolls, astroturfers or shills, about graphic editing software they have experience with. Not having someone else google the question and lazily post literally literally the third result, evidently. OT: I don't think you'll get very far if you want to do anything serious, without a license for a commercial product. I dabbled a bit in GIMP and found it was a bit lacking in features, and I'm a garbage tier photo manipulator. That was a few years ago, though, I don't know if it's got better.

Feel free to share your impressions. I've been tempted to try it again but the prospect of 30-min missions puts me off.

"Better" is subjective. I decided to install Extended 3025 based on what I read in this post. I wrote RT off because I hated the Korean MMO-style grind it introduced in the first releases, and from what I read, it hasn't got any better with new versions in that regard. Systems-wise it's second to none, though. Also 16 GB is the minimum so your PC doesn't crap out while the AI thinks. Advanced 3062 might be more up your alley.

Perhaps it was another Warhammer variant? Since it was added to the game, I've only played with BEX 3025 which adds a ton of 'mechs, but I don't really know which ones are vanilla. As far as I know, an ammo explosion always destroys the part where it happens but, unlike in the tabletop, there is no spillover damage to the CT because the explosion doesn't actually do numerical damage. AI ability usage in BFGA is weird. It rarely uses even torpedoes, and I don't think I've ever seen it pop probes or bombs. Fighters, boarding actions and mobility abilities seem to be routinely cycled, however. Maybe it's a difficulty tier thing. Regardless, I'm enjoying the game a lot, but I wish it would let the guest purchase ships. Also digging how bad the Astartes are.

Epic Games Store has generated $680M so far, with exclusives being 'critical' So much for the jihad.

I can imagine how terrifying it could be for a kid to be threatened to be put in a bag and shipped to Spain.

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the Kickstarter scam par excellence: Star Citizen. Which, funny story, is not a scam at all but rather a case study in how crowdfunding success can completely bog down a project. Ironically, I'm sure it will be a wildly successful commercial product... at some point in the 2030s. In any case, how many actual demonstrable scams have come through Kickstarter? Seems one of those words that people throw around so often that it's become almost meaningless.

The sad thing is the super flexible mechlab really breaks the game, because the OPFOR can't really counter imba builds like max flamer Firestarters or laser vomit Grashoppers and is itself restricted to stock variants. So that and an AI that is just adequate (and cannot use morale abilities) require that you are always outnumbered to provide an iota of challenge. A bad foundational decision to have that in the game in its current form, but I guess "fans wanted it"... though they may have felt differently if warned that it would come with 4v8-12 drudgery. In this game, an ammo explosion automatically destroys the part, and the MG ammo is in the CT on the WHM-6R. I used to run a melee modded Banshee with max armor and nothing but +crit MGs. Good (broken) times. Chugging along in the BFGA2 imperial campaign. Tyranids launched a multi-pronged invasion but managed to only take a system that had just been lost to heretics. GG hivemind. I get the feeling the game is made much easier by having a friend control half the fleet, and I'm no space Zhukov. We may need to up the difficulty for next campaign. I'm really liking how distinct the different factions feel.